Identity in crossroad civilisations
Subtitle: ethnicity, nationalism and globalism in Asia
By: edited by Erich Kolig, Vivienne SM. Angeles and Sam Wong
Series: ICAS publications series. Edited volumes -- 8; ICAS publication series -- 8.
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9789089641274
Other titles: Identity in crossroad civilizations
Description: Based on multi-disciplinary studies conducted in Asia (India, Bhutan, China, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, New Zealand), this volume on Identity in Crossroad Civilisations: Ethnicity, Nationalism and Globalism in Asia demonstrates how identity is defined, negotiated and conceptualised in response to increasing globalisation in the region. Asian expressions of identity reflect, in many ways, their adaptability to the changing economic, political and social climates and at the same time question Samuel Huntington's popular yet controversial thesis on the clash of civilisations. This book also engages Benedict Anderson's idea of 'imagined communities' and shows how its operation impacts on both community and individual identity in an environment that is increasingly characterised by border crossings and transnationalism. Contemporary Asian realities, as examined in the essays, demonstrate the need to rethink previous notions of identity and nationalism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-259).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : crossroad civilisations and bricolage identities  -- Erich Kolig, Sam Wong, Vivienne SM. Angeles; title: Asia and the global world : identities, values, rights  -- Elena Asciutti; title: Creating 'Malaysians' : a case study of an urban kampung in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia  -- Toru Ueda; title: Ethnic mosaic and the cultural nationalism of Bhutan  -- Rup Kumar Barman; title: Religion and cultural nationalism : socio-political dynamism of communal violence in India  -- Sali Augustine; title: Is identity clash inevitable? Identity and network building amongst mainland Chinese migrants in Hong Kong  -- Sam Wong; title: Socio-economic crisis and its consequences on a little known tribal community in West Bengal, India  -- Samar Kumar Biswas; title: Post-colonialism, globalism, nativism : reinventing English in a post-colonial space  -- Krishna Sen; title: Occidentalism and Asian middle-class identities : notes on birthday cakes in an Indian context  -- Minna Säävälä; title: Ode to 'personal challenge' : reconsidering Japanese groupism and the role of Beethoven's Ninth in catering to socio-cultural needs  -- Eddy Y.L. Chang; title: Performing cosmopolitan clash and collage : Krishen Jit's stagings of the 'Stranger' in Malaysia  -- Charlene Rajendran; title: Constructing identity : visual expressions of Islam in the predominantly Catholic Philippines  -- Vivienne SM. Angeles; title: Islam and Orientalism in New Zealand : the challenges of multiculturalism, human rights and national security - and the return of the Xenophobes -- Erich Kolig.